I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.